[tater]

Not true, robtek. The entire thing was predicated by the use of the company name on the box with no copyright/attribution, IMO. A company is required to defend its name. The box of course has a global copyright on it saying that everything belongs to ubi/1c/whatever (don't have my box in front of me, it's at home). Without the note that NG is property of NG, they are in fact saying on the box that THEY own the NG name.

Slam dunk, taken to court, they'd have to recall the product, pay damages, etc.

Had the PF box not had NG's name on it (NOT the plane names), nothing would have happened. Since they had ubi over a barrel on that, they could demand anything they wanted and get it. You can argue with that, certainly, but it was entirely predicated on the lack of a decent copy editor and legal team to vet the box art (any company as big as ubi should have run the box past editors and lawyers as SOP).

Note that I'm not trying to be an apologist for NG, but there are two corporate entities here, and only one gets the flak on the boards for "greed." You could make a similar argument for being too greedy to pay a few hundred bucks to have the art checked.